Pharang-Bah

As one who instructed "intercultural communication" for six years, I've given this considerable thought. Part of the phenomenon undoubtedly derives from the yawning chasm of values that sees many kids just poised to escape home at soon as they turn 18 (or other majority age) as they share absolutely nothing in common with their parents (or often their community). I tried - but not very earnestly - to accommodate the values of my conservative military East Texas parents but never considered making a miserable life just to attempt to adhere to their plans and dreams for me - which would have been the way a young person would have done it in Asia or parts of Europe. The despair of youth, looking around at the opulence enjoyed by a elder generation while sharply aware that their employment opportunities or private lives will never be as comfortable and secure, is sinking in around the developed world: the Chinese "lay down flat" syndrome, hikikomori in Japan, sullen, resentful Euros, Australians, Canadians and Americans ... I also point to global birth rates careening downward as another bit of evidence that youth does not care to share the same familial values. Catholic Italy, conservative Japan and Korea, white Americans and Canadians are not making enough babies to maintain the population, which is either a good thing or not, depending on your attitude toward modern civilization.

Funny you should mention that - it brought to mind my six foot four inch father hitting me at about age 17 - and for the very first time I reflexively slugged him back. That stunned him and he never tried to hit me again. Of course he was around 60 so we were more evenly matched than was the case previously.

After suffering disappointment with several other OTC anti-fungal salves, I am having great results from Fungiderm (Clotrimazole), an inexpensive topical medication. Fresh undamaged nail is peeping out from multiple cuticles after a few weeks. A cheery dermatologist may try to sell you on a more thorough internal medication - pills - but as a matter of caution I tend to avoid taking any medicinal poison which has to transverse the oral cavity, gullet, gastrointestinal tract, liver, kidneys and bloodstream before eventually arriving at the extremities. I simply refuse to believe that such a powerful medication will innocently pass through and absolutely do no harm along the way. It is not advisable to attempt to sing out "Clotrimazole" while heavily inebriated.

I think you mean a memory card - not a SIM - where you can safely stash your private data, and then transfer it back to the mobile device once you are safely away from the ones my late Uncle Riley used to refer to as the "<deleted> sniffers".

Couldn't have put it better myself. Nor could AI.